Japan delays H2A launch in the wake of H3 failure
Monday, 03 April 2023 11:19
Japan has delayed the launch of a H-2A rocket planned for May to no earlier than August in the wake of the failed inaugural flight of H3 rocket.
New ESA astronaut candidates start basic training
Monday, 03 April 2023 10:10
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ESA's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their 12-month basic training.
The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States in November 2022.
The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future space missions. During basic training, this includes learning all about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space
China’s Space Pioneer reaches orbit with liquid propellant rocket
Monday, 03 April 2023 08:11
Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket.
Momentus' pioneering propulsion system completes initial tests in space
Monday, 03 April 2023 07:40
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has successfully completed the initial test sequence on-orbit of its pioneering Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) that relies on solar power and uses distilled water as a propellant.
The MET is the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle's (OSV) primary propulsion method that produces thrust by expelling extremely hot gases through a rocket nozzle. Unlike a conv Hack-A-Sat competition highlights on-orbit hacking
Monday, 03 April 2023 07:40
The Department of the Air Force, or DAF, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and Space Systems Command, opened registration Feb. 22, 2023, for the qualification round of the fourth annual "Hack-A-Sat" competition, the world's first satellite hacking contest hosted for an on-orbit satellite.
Hack-A-Sat is an opportunity for hackers, researchers and everyday ent NASA policy discourages naming missions after individuals
Monday, 03 April 2023 07:21
A new NASA policy makes it unlikely future missions will be named after individuals in response to the controversy surrounding the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope.
SpaceX launches Tranche 0 mission sending 10 satellites into orbit
Monday, 03 April 2023 02:03
SpaceX launched 10 Space Development Agency satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sunday in the Tranche 0 mission.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on a cloudy day at about 10:29 p.m. EST, marking the 22nd launch by SpaceX this year and 221st all time. A previous launch attempt was scrubbed on Thursday after one of the booster's nine engines automatically tr NASA to reveal crew for 2024 flight around the Moon
Monday, 03 April 2023 02:03
NASA is to reveal the names on Monday of the astronauts - three Americans and a Canadian - who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude to returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time in a half century.
The mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to take place in November 2024 with the four-person crew circling the Moon but not landing on it.
As part of the Artemis program, SpaceX launches 10 satellites for U.S. Space Development Agency
Sunday, 02 April 2023 14:01
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off April 2 at 10:29 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying 10 military satellites for the U.S.
OpenAI's ChatGPT blocked in Italy: privacy watchdog
Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:21
Italy's privacy watchdog said Friday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not respect user data and could not verify users' age.
The decision "with immediate effect" will result in "the temporary limitation of the processing of Italian user data vis-a-vis OpenAI", the Italian Data Protection Authority said.
The agency has launched an First Mars Sample Depot shaped by Rover, Lander, and Helicopter
Sunday, 02 April 2023 10:07
NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring the upper surface of the Western Fan in Jezero crater, having completed a very successful one Mars year Prime Mission. It has sealed 22 of the 43 sample tubes it brought to Mars and created the Three Forks Sample Depot where it deposited 10 of these samples.
The Mars Sample Return mission aims to bring some of the samples that Perseverance collect The Role of a Rover, a Lander, and Helicopters in the Unique Shape of the First Sample Depot on Mars
Sunday, 02 April 2023 06:03
NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring the upper surface of the Western Fan in Jezero crater, having completed a very successful one Mars year Prime Mission. It has sealed 22 of the 43 sample tubes it brought to Mars and created the Three Forks Sample Depot where it deposited 10 of these samples.
The Mars Sample Return mission aims to bring some of the samples that Perseverance collect NASA's Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign
Sunday, 02 April 2023 06:03
NASA's Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission's newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30. With each campaign, the team explores and studies a new area. On this one, the rover is exploring the top of Jezero Crater's delta. Perseverance has collected a total of 19 samples and three witness tubes, and it recently deposited 10 tubes as a backup cache on the Martian MOXIE Celebrates 2 Years on Mars: Discoveries and Work Left To Do
Sunday, 02 April 2023 06:03
MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is a Perseverance Rover payload on Mars. MOXIE uses a scroll pump to capture the thin, carbon-dioxide dominate air of Mars and flows it into a Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOXE) stack. The SOXE performs an electrochemical process that strips oxygen atoms off the carbon dioxide. This oxygen is a valuable resource for rocket propellant o